Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College has "a very heavy responsibility" to these bright students that it must not forget as it contemplates expansion, Bender continued. "This superb student body of ours needs and deserves the best we can give them. They will demand a lot of the faculty and of Harvard and will not be satisfied with a mixture of huge lectures, a horde of Teaching Fellows, perfunctory tutorial instruction, jammed libraries and laboratories...
...convalescing from bronchial pneumonia, and still ill, when he got the news of Geneva's failure to reunify Germany. He summoned military aides and ministers to his home and told them to get moving on the formation of Wrest Germany's new armed forces. Adenauer's demand: four combat divisions in the field...
Then, as Stalin tried to reply, Ordzhonikidze cut him short: "I demand that this authoritarianism cease! I'm still a member of the Politburo! I'm going to raise hell, Koba, if it's the last thing I do before...
...surge of consumer buying that pushed the demand for the nation's goods and services to alltime records had stepped up production and expansion plans all down the line. Items: ¶ The U.S. oil industry will spend more than $350 million over the next ten months for new refineries to meet the demand for oil and gas, thus boost refining capacity 335,000 bbls., to 8,582,800 bbls daily...
...KING COAL is digging out of the postwar slump. After dropping to 392 million tons last year, the lowest point since 1938, output this year has climbed 20% to 462 million tons. Reasons: heavy demand by steel producers, reviving exports, and a continued rise in coal consumption by electric-power producers...